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Thanks. It's a good quick run-through with the fundamentals and lives up to the title. I wish there would be simple and short illustrative examples/case-studies - or links to it - in the lessons to prove each point.

The worse, I guess, is the password constraint. I really fail to understand why should any application (except banking, may be) force its users to go for difficult passwords. I agree, it weakens the security - but warn them, don't force them. It should be a guideline; not a rule. Whether I want to follow it not is my decision; my risk.

I was using the CodeAcademy courses, they are equally good. Although I have looked into only the first few lessons on learn-angular.

The whole story is enjoyable; especially the Ballmer Visit part. It's surprising to see the city council reacting that way to his visit. Something that is hard to understand in many parts of the world.

A cleaner way to convert a function declaration into a function expression would be to use brackets

  (function() {
    //code here
  })();

This won't affect the return type of the statement; which in case of using ! will return boolean 'true' unless the function returns a truthy value. Plus using ! for this purpose, looks totally messy.

I'm one of the authors. We hope it's a good start of a collection for OmniGraffle users. Requesting everyone to contribute; submit more stencils and make this place great.

Good idea. OmniGraffle users now can use such free stencil collections. It should grow.

Thanks. We'll do that soon.

We are putting up a fully functional demo to try out the whole product. It should up and running in a day. Will post the link here. Thanks.

First thing - don't search for motivation or don't try to get yourself motivated. You'll end up looking for things that will make you feel good which will in-turn promote procrastination and thereby take you away from actions. The truth is motivation doesn't last. It's a push mechanism. You'll have to focus on things that pull you towards it.

If you keep going like the way you are currently, how would your life be? Definitely you understand the problem with it and this post is the proof. But ask yourself - "why do you want to get A-levels at school?". If programming and researching keeps you going, by all means, you should focus on it. Make sure you put the best possible efforts in it; the rest will follow automatically.

I trust, that's a good decision. The context of a component should always be carried with the component. I myself, found the global menus a lot troublesome, although the design intention to provide more room was successful.

It was a wrong choice of tool for that kind of a project, in the first place. The biggest problem that I've personally seen with AngularJS is the steep learning curve.

People, please watch these few videos to genuinely understand what 37Signal guys (David and Jason) stand for before having a say.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XD2kNopsUs&list=PLuBTPnEIr6J...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzERXJgi5vQ and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPrvnlvnu-k

and yea, don't forget https://twitter.com/shitmydadsays/status/10390379840929792

Hats off to the simplicity and focus these guys have. I have loved and admired this company over years. These announcements have only added more respect for them.

Excellent work there. I always wanted to work on such a public collection but kudos to these guys on making it a reality. I've used/read-about/tried-out most of the stuff listed there and appreciate the hardwork that has gone into putting all of it together.

I think Polymer (Google) and Brick (Mozilla) deserves a mention there as Web Components have a very high possibility of becoming the ultimate way for the future of web development.